For anyone hoping the COVD-19 crisis will come to a quick end, former Homeland Security Assistant Secretary Juliette Kayyem offered some sobering words today: The virus will be with us for the foreseeable future.
“I have to be blunt and tell you this period is going to exist until further notice. We are going to have to learn to live with the virus. Once you get your head around that, then the solution becomes clear,” Kayyem said.
She delivered her remarks virtually as the third and final keynote speaker at (ISC)2Security Congress 2020. Kayyem focused her talk on what cybersecurity teams need to do through the pandemic to ensure safe operations of their teams and the employees they support. Her message about the importance of cybersecurity at such a time couldn’t have been clearer: “If what you do falters, the company won’t exist.” It was a reminder of the critical role that cybersecurity plays during a crisis.
During a previous keynote address, security expert Graham Cluley spoke of the need to follow security best practices and educate staff to combat efforts by cybercriminals trying to take advantage of the crisis to deliver attacks. On Monday, another security expert, Bruce Schneier, spoke of the intricate link between technology and society. He advocated for the creation of a public interest technologist role that participates in the development of technology at every stage to help ensure technologies are created with social, economic and political interests in mind.
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